Running-gear for vehicles



' (No Model.)

0. WILSON. RUNNING GEAR FOR VEHICLES.

No. 554,472. Patented Feb. 11, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ODELL \VILSON', OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

RUNNING-GEAR FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,472, dated February 11, 1896. Application filed September 10,1895. Serial No. 562,099. (No model-) To all whom, it may concern.-

llc it known that I, ODELL \VILSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Running-Gear for XV heeled Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to running-gear for wheeled vehicles; and it consists in the combination, with the wheels and ailcs of a vehicle,

of pneumatic or cushion wheels operating in conjunction with the running-gear in such a manner that the vehicle shall have the principal advantages and benefits derived from the use of pneumatic or cushioned tires without being subject to the dangers orliabilities of cushioned tires as they are now used on the rims or fellies of carriage or wagon wheels. 1

The invention comprises the new construetions and combinations,substantial] y as hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the running-gear of a bugg or wagon having my invention embodied therein. Fig. 2 is a front end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear end elevation of the Figs. at, 5, 6, and 7 are modified forms of construction and adaptation of m y invention.

A A represent the axles, and \V \V the wheels, of the common running-gear of such vehicles.

l B are super-axles supported above the axles A A by interposed elliptic or other suit able springs O C, and may also be provided with depending arms D 1),- having' forked c nds which straddle the a .es A A, as seen in Fig. 4, and serve as guides to aid in 11' intaining the axles ll .13 perpendicularly over the axles E E are pneumatic or cushion wheels or small tires fixed upon the inner ends of the hubs of the wheels W, an rotate with them, as seen in'Fig. 5.

F F are pneumatic orcushioned wheels having hubs and are mounted on the ends of the axles B B, directly over the wheels or'rollcrs E E, and bearing upon said wheels or rollcrs are made to rotate by them.

The bolster and fifth-wheel are fixed on the forward upper'axle B. The rear axle 13 may be supported by two elliptic springs O C or an y other form of springs or construction.

The inner ends of the hubs of the wheels \V \V might be made with solid bands and the wheels F 1 ride on their plain peripheries, as seen in Fig. (1, or the pneumatic or .eushion wheels might be fixed on the hubs or flanges constructed on the heels \V \V, and the wheels or rollers E E on the upper axles be plain, as shown in Fig. 7. V

I do not wish to be confined to the exact construction and m-rangcment shown of the pneumatic or cushion wheels or tires relative to the main wheelsof avehicle, as many modifications are susceptible, my object being to provide all wheel-vehicles with cushioned wheels not running upon the ground and avoid the liability of damage to the tires, yet giving to such vehicles all the case and comfort of riding upon cushi ned tires.

IIavingdescribed my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The combination with the wheels \V \V and axles A A of wheeled vehicles, of the super-' axles B B, supporting the body of the vehicle and mounted on the front and rear springs O O, the pneumatic cushion wheels E E, mounted on the ends'of the superaxles ll 1 and hubs of the wheels W W, substeutially as described and for the purpose set forth.

()DELT. WILSON.

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